Map of Suriname

Suriname is located in South America. Its territory lies in the northern and western hemispheres, centred near 4.0° N, 56.0° W. It shares land borders with 2 countries — Brazil and Guyana — and also has its own coastline. Within South America, a continent of 12 countries bordered by the Atlantic Ocean and the Pacific Ocean, Suriname is mapped here in full with its borders, capital and key facts.

Suriname shares land frontiers with the following 2 countries. Select any neighbour to open its own map.

Suriname covers about 163,820 km² (63,251 sq mi). That makes it the 90th-largest country in the world by area and the smallest country in South America by area.

It is home to a population of roughly 616,500, the 167th-largest in the world and the 12th-largest in South America, accounting for about 0.1% of the continent’s people. With that land area, Suriname has an average population density of about 4 people per km². Among the 12 countries of South America it stands 12th by population and 12th by area.

The seat of government is Paramaribo, and the official currency is the Surinamese dollar (SRD, $), and the main official language is Dutch. Traffic drives on the left, and the country observes the time zone UTC-03:00.

Suriname carries the ISO country codes SR and SUR, dials on the international calling code +597 and uses the .sr internet domain.

Suriname shares its land borders with 2 countries, each of which is mapped in full on this site. Listed from the most to the least populous, here is how they compare.

Its neighbours are Brazil (capital Brasília, about 213,421,037 people) and Guyana (capital Georgetown, about 772,975 people).

By area, Suriname is larger than 0 of these neighbours and smaller than 2 of them, which places its size in context along its own frontiers. Open any neighbour above to see its capital, borders and full set of facts on its own map.

The interactive map above is centred on 4.0° N, 56.0° W and opens at zoom level 6, framing Suriname within South America. A marker pin sits at the country’s approximate geographic centre; drag the map or use scroll and pinch to move from a regional overview down to the streets of Paramaribo. The map is drawn from OpenStreetMap data, the same open dataset used across this site, so place names, roads and coastlines stay consistent from one country to the next.

Suriname lies about 444 km from the equator, in the northern and western hemispheres of the globe. Zoom out to see how its coastline and land borders meet the wider region.

Suriname keeps a single standard time zone, UTC-03:00. That figure is the country’s offset from Coordinated Universal Time (UTC), the modern reference that for everyday purposes matches Greenwich Mean Time, so local clocks sit -03:00 relative to UTC before any seasonal daylight saving change.

The official currency is the Surinamese dollar (SRD, $).

The official language is Dutch, which is what appears on signs, documents and many of the place labels you will see on the map.

For practical reference, vehicles drive on the left-hand side of the road, the international dialling code is +597 and websites commonly use the .sr internet domain.

In short, Suriname is a coastal country in South America, sharing land borders with 2 countries. Its capital is Paramaribo. Suriname has a population of about 616,500 and covers around 163,820 km² (63,251 sq mi), ranking it 167th in the world by population and 90th by area. The interactive map, facts table and questions on this page bring those details together in one place for Suriname.

The flag of Suriname is composed of five horizontal bands of green, white, red, white and green in the ratio of 2:1:4:1:2. A large five-pointed yellow star is centered in the red band.

The flag of Suriname is shown above as an emoji, rendered by your device’s own font; see it alongside every other nation on the flags of the world page.